Ruth Tallman, PhD

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Dr. Ruth Tallman joined the Barry faculty in 2010. She earned a BA degree in philosophy from Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, an MA in religious studies from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, and an MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Dr. Tallman’s philosophical interests include ethics, in particular bioethics and the ethics of everyday life, as well as philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and philosophical issues in popular culture.

She is the faculty advisor for Barry University’s Philosophy Club, as well as a co-coach of Barry’s Ethics Bowl team.

"The Ontology of Art and What Libraries Should Buy," with Jason Southworth, in Graphic Novels in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History, and Cataloging. Robert G. Weiner, ed., McFarland, 2010.

“Heroes and Family Obligations” with Jason Southworth, in Heroes and Philosophy, David Kyle Johnson, ed. Wiley Publishing, 2009.

“Keeping Up Appearances: Moral Exemplarism and the Importance of Looking Good,” Fourth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Center for Values and Social Policy, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, August 4-7, 2011.

“What Is Human Perfection?,” Exploring Human Enhancement: A Symposium, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, April 8-9, 2011.

“Valuing Lives and Allocating Resources: A Defense of the Modified Youngest First Principle of Scarce Resource Distribution,” Valuing Lives: A Conference on Ethics in Health and the Environment, New York University Center for Bioethics, New York City, March 5, 2011.

"Trades, Floppies, Graphic Novels and the Ontology of Art," with Jason Southworth at the Comic Book in Popular Culture Conference, Bowling Green State University, October 24-25, 2008.

"Retaining Meaning in Art on a Physical Object Hypothesis Account of the Ontology of Artworks," at the University of Missouri-St. Louis 2008 Graduate Philosophy Conference: The Beautiful, the Good, and the Just, April 11-12, 2008.

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